Vilgax and Ben Tennyson in “The Flame Keepers' Circle”

I was wondering when you would find me.

Vilgax? How can you be here?!

These days, they call me the Diagon.

I don't care who these people think you are. I know the truth.

But how can it be? I can see your tiny human brain struggling to comprehend the impossible.

Vilgax, conqueror of ten worlds, living in a fish tank in the VIP room of a bunch of people who believe that Santa drives a UFO. It's a mystery, all right.

I should have been dead. Our last battle-- the terrible explosion. But just as you survived, so did I. Rather than being destroyed, I was lost to the sea. Too weak to revert to my normal form, I eventually washed up on shore… and was sold to a traveling carnival. Despite the indignity of my situation, it did provide me with food, shelter, and time to regain my strength. Recently, I was liberated by this collection of buffoons-- the Esoterica.

The Flame Keepers' Circle. And this Diagon they're so obsessed with just happens to be some kind of space squid, too.

A most fortuitous coincidence, would you not agree?

So now you're a prophecy made to order-- their old alien pal finally making his promised return.

"All hail Diagon!" They'd do anything for me. Why, they just acquired for me a class 7 interstellar ship.

What are you going to do with it?

My followers think I'll use it to fetch some glorious alien tech stashed on a nearby moon. Instead, I will find Psyphon, regain my lost powers, then return home to rule my empire.

You don't have an empire, genius. It fell after everybody heard you were dead. [Vilgax roars, hearing him say that] You know how it is. When the cat's away, the mice will play.

Those who resist my rule will be washed away in the tide of battle! My empire will rise again!

Yeah, about that… not gonna happen.